Timeline for What is the plural form of "status"?

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Jan 27, 2018 at 23:52	comment	added	Edwin Ashworth		So how can "the true plural of status is statUs" and "the normal English plural form [is] ‘statuses’ " both be true if one is restricted to analysing English words (as one is on ELU)? I'd not even argue with spellcheckers that rejected statUs with a macron over the u.
Jan 27, 2018 at 22:04	comment	added	Greg Bacon		@EdwinAshworth The quoted passage begins “If for some bizarre reason you simply cannot bring yourself to use the normal English plural form ‘statuses’ …”
Jan 27, 2018 at 15:14	comment	added	Edwin Ashworth		''' Of course, @tchrist may not have been limited by the constraints of ELU in writing the above for a different site. Which would make the above essentially a misquote on ELU.
Jan 27, 2018 at 15:07	comment	added	Edwin Ashworth		' ... you must learn that the true plural of status is statUs, with a macro[n] over the u [i.e., statūs] and pronounced “statoose”. That’s because status comes from the Latin declension that forms plurals according to that particular rule'. That may well be the rule for the original Latin word/s. But 'true plural' for English words is defined by modern usage, no matter how many desirable / undesirable changes have occurred since their adoption into the language. Thus the ill-formed octopi is licensed by AHD and M-W.
Jan 27, 2018 at 14:26	comment	added	Greg Bacon		@EdwinAshworth How?
Jan 25, 2018 at 1:58	comment	added	Edwin Ashworth		This perpetuates the etymological fallacy. At best.
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Apr 5, 2016 at 1:06	history	edited	Greg Bacon	CC BY-SA 3.0	added 4 characters in body
Apr 4, 2016 at 18:19	history	answered	Greg Bacon	CC BY-SA 3.0